Blue Nettle Leaf Porterweed, Stachytarpheta cayennensis

Benefits of Blue Nettle Leaf Porterweed

• Attractive to bees and butterflies
• Tall bush with towering bracts of flowers adds garden drama
• Evergreen foliage
• Easy to care for
• Self-seeds prolifically
• Tolerates poor soil and some drought

This upright bushy shrub features a woody base and can grow up to six feet tall, making it an excellent filler plant for the cottage garden.

The small purple or blue flowers rise above the foliage on slender spikes, and nettle leaf Porterweed blooms throughout the warmer seasons.

Terms of Sale

We do not ship live plants to California, Arizona, Hawai’i, Alaska, or outside the U.S.

This listing is for one perennial landscape plant as pictured, of the size shown or larger, ready for planting out.

Priority shipping is included in the price.

Your plant will be shipped bare root in soil-less medium and packaged as well as possible against shipping damage while still keeping costs reasonable.

We only ship plants by Priority Mail to reduce the chances of plant damage, overheating, or chilling. We also only ship plants Monday through Wednesday to avoid excess time in transit or stressing the plants. However, we cannot control USPS shipping times or possible damages in transit.

If you have any problem with your plants at the time of delivery, please contact us within 48 hours of receipt. We do not offer returns or refunds after 48 hours of delivery.

We can combine shipping with multiple plants if you contact us for an estimate before ordering.